Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curtain-raiser is in the familiar Coward tradition of the London flat, the racy sophistication, and the intricate shadings of character. "Hands Across The Sea" Depends for plot upon simple mistaken identity; but it is into his people, not action, that Coward throws his efforts here. Basically a tour the forced for Gertrude Lawrence, the apparently flawless supporting cast is spread out in a half-dozen beautiful roles. Uneasy colonials, brash ladies, amorphic gentlemen all flow around the sparkling currents of Miss Lawrence's personality and Mr. Coward's lightest lines in a piece which is to the best degree...
Track coach Jaako Mikkola likes Freshman, particularly if they can high jump six feet or run the hundred in ten flat. At the opening winter track meeting this Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Varsity Club, he will attempt to coax as many of them as possible into the Crimson fold. All Varsity candidates are invited to be on hand...
...flat, unimpressive, and at times halting phrases, an ex-Senator from Missouri yesterday reported to the Congress of the United States the outlines of the program which he deems "necessary and essential" to avert chaos in Europe and economic disaster at home. It was a sweeping program. It was a daring step...
...morning, Sayde's maid answered the doorbell, saw two characters with stockings pulled over their faces. "This is a nice way to enter a person's home," Sayde observed. She was understating it. One of the men clubbed her on the head and face with the flat of a gun. "Where's the big ring?" the gunman wanted to know. She said the store...
...suffer because of cuts in fuel for heating bath water. Part of his strict daily regimen is to bathe each morning at 8, in cold water. By that time, he has already been up nearly four hours. He gets up at 4:15, works in his Whitehall Court flat along the Thames Embankment until 6:45. Then he and Isobel walk briskly through St. James's Park. The rest of the day he sticks meticulously to a tight schedule, gives no more than the allotted time (usually 15 minutes) to each interview...